Three people were killed and 18 others were injured as a result of shelling of the Kursk region from Ukraine, the acting governor of the region, Alexey Smirnov, reported on his Telegram channel.
One resident of the city of Sudzha was killed. In the village of Nekhaevka, Rylsky district, a minibus driver was killed as a result of a drone attack. Another bus driver died in the village of Komarovka.
Initially, 13 victims were reported: two people were injured in the Glushkovsky district, eight people, including four children, in Sudzha. Two more were injured in the Bolshesoldatsky district and one in Rylsky. According to Smirnov, all of them were taken to hospitals.
Later, the head of the region reported that five more residents of border areas were injured after attacks by Ukrainian drones. One person was injured in the village of Belitsa, two more — near the village of Novoivanovka. In the village of Politodelsky in the Glushkovsky district, a drone attacked a car — two people were injured, writes Smirnov.
According to Baza, the three injured children live in the village of Zaoleshenka near Sudzha, and their mother was also injured. The family's house was «hit by shell fragments,» the Telegram channel claimed.
“The situation in the border area remains difficult, but our defenders are successfully working to destroy the enemy,” he wrote. O. governor. According to him, at a meeting of the operational headquarters it was decided to “strengthen medical and ambulance teams in the border areas, as well as inspect temporary accommodation centers in Kursk for the relocation of residents from affected houses.”
Smirnov emphasized that in the border areas “the forces of voluntary people’s squads are being used to the maximum.” He asked local residents “not to trust information provocations.”
Several Z-channels, including “Two Majors” and “Archangel of Special Forces,” wrote on the morning of August 6 that fighting was taking place on the border near Sudzha two places. At the same time, Smirnov said that the military “did not allow the border to be broken through.” The Ukrainian side did not report any fighting.
The Russian Ministry of Defense later confirmed information about the battles — according to the department, 300 Ukrainian military personnel, 11 tanks and 20 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces took part in them.
Updated at 17:54 and 18:41. The number of dead and injured has been clarified.